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• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  to do a pset WITH people me: i like STEM and i want to get involved in ... being suspended in this void for a few seconds, my legs swaying back and forth underneath me while I tried to propel myself up. Keep in mind that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  ’s surface. Truly a magical experience that you have to see in person. (Minor ... eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... here are some of those who responded to me. Michael C '16 Here in Dallas

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the ... class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third ... should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... has learned the art of maintaining a balanced and fulfilled life in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  , so we decided to a small café with over 85 kinds of cake to indulge in ... ?) proved to be fateful, as it was in a glass jar, which prevented me from ... next to it. Honestly, this is just an incredible sight in the middle of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to ... , regularly heads down to a warehouse in Lawrence that's chock-full of ... building for using such a cheesy html gimmick in a reputable post. But trust

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Reaching for the STARS* *Small Town And Rural Students

  

  Town and Rural Students) College Network, a collaborative effort of a select group of 16 colleges and universities, including MIT, dedicated to ... intended to build upon good work already being done to promote greater access

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 4, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... grasping which first principles are involved in a problem, and then diving

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can’t-solve-a ... .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... even more by saying that there are many ways in which I am a “typical MIT

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  . As part of their quest to be hardk0re, they get involved in a hack: a ... . WHY? Because the soundtrack to Hack Punt Tool, a musical about MIT ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... Hasbro to see if they'd be interested in producing and manufacturing them ... was that a museum in Lowell, MA was interested in displaying Electro

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  not, there is no way to simply put your head down in college and learn a ... , and civil unrest around the globe, just to name a few. This is, alas ... they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in ... person I was as a child. We had just moved to the United States. I had just ... indignant at the lack of a consumerist Christmas in my newly American family

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  is a small clip that attaches to any piece of head-word athletic equipment and vibrates to alert the athlete if their head accelerates in a ... a mechanical engineer, decided to address this issue by designing a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  's responses than to construct a decent exam. It’s an exercise in multitasking ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I ... wasn’t sure whether to declare a double major or settle with a minor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a ... - it was all very alluring and exotic to me. Growing up in sunny Los ... your browser to be the first to sign up for a trip (2) your facebook

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may send in a CD recording of you performing (cassette tapes are also ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  In celebration of today's "holiday," I decided it would make sense to ... like seeing that I expected to be studying a lot of the time. Would we ... the Boston city limits. In a town where there are so many college

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed ... -- so if you're in a school that doesn't have midyear grades, or you ... updates you want us to know about. Feel free to write in bullet points or

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  Early Action deadline. We've been getting a lot of questions here in the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of those questions, and to provide a bit of advice as well. Please be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008